"Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes"

[Butterbean]

67. I love this idea. Here's my question, though:

how can this be pulled off in a country that has roughly 58 x the population of Finland?

I think about this every time someone says, "well, they do xyz in this country and it's AWESOME." Great. How big is that country? How spread out? How accessible is public transit? Our country is huge. Finland's population as of 5/2013 was 5,432,305. America's was approximately 315 million. In other words, Finland's population is equivalent to that of Wisconsin.

What I want to know, really genuinely want to know, because I am stumped every time I try to come up with an answer, is how in the hell we are supposed to come up with something like this in a country as huge as this, where public transit is NOT ubiquitous or reliable, and where in some places we are so geographically spread out that you don't see another living soul for miles?

I think this is wonderful, and it warms my heart, but I swear every time I look at our country and think of trying to do something like this, I just get mentally exhausted.

ETA: if this comes off as snark, it is not meant to be that way. I really want to know if someone thinks about this stuff and what to do about it here, because I just have no clue. None. This is why I don't bitch about the problem, because I have no solution.